The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-09


pletion, and one in Salt Lake CITY,
which we hope to see finished before
long, our hearts are filed WIN giad-
ness and we cannot refrain from pralS-
ing our God for His goodness unto His
people in permitting them, notWltn-
standing the opposition ana many oil,
fculties they have had 10 contend
with, to erect such structures ana 10
dedicate them, according to the pat
tern He has given fer these sacred
uses.
NO right feeling Latter-day Saint
can Ghink upon this subject without
beinr thrilled with heavenly JOY for
what God has done for US in our gener-
alton. furnishing US, as He has done,
with every facility to prepare US, our
DesEeritv and our ancestors for That
eternal world which lies beyond the
present life. The Latter-day Saints
are in truth, highly favored people,
and praise TO God should ascend from
every heart and hRbitation in our land
for the great mercy and goodness
which He has shown unto US. He has
made US promises of the most precious
character, and he has fulfilled them up
TO the present time. We would be the
most ungrateful and unworthy people
tRst ever lived IL, after receiving such
wonderful manifestations OF HIS good
ness, we slackened in our diligence or
failed in our obedience and devotion
70 Him and His great cause.
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Tne treatment which the Elders have
received in preaching the Gospel
throughout the Southern States, as
we are informed by President John
Morgan, has been much better OF late
thar y haS been at some other periods.
Zine ELDERS are listened to with more
Ep&Essnce and do not meet with so much
of the spirit of mobOcraCy and un-
reasoning hate. Additions are being
made to the Church, and those VINO
emigTate from that region have gener
ally settled IN San Luis Valley, Colo
RADIO.
The Elders in the North Western
States under the direction OF President
w. n. Palmer, pursue their labors
with GndimiRished zeal and with mod
crate success in bringing people into
the Church. These fields of labor
have furnished opportunities for num-
beers OF our young men to gaia expert |
ence IN missionary efforts, and those |
who have this privilege return home,
In the most OF instances, better quail |
fed 60 assist the LEGAL authorities |
where they reside IL the laoors OF the !
ministry.
In Great Britain the Elders meefi
with considerable opposition in places, |
principally, however, from apostates. |
They ind that field a much more diff |
1icUlt one than it was IN former years. |
The hearts of the people seem to have |
become hardened, and great iHdiRer- |
ence prevails. in regard to religion.
Still we learn from President &c rye |
TeSsdsle, who presideSrat the present
Slime over the European Mission, that
the Elders who Zealously enter into
the iGbors Of The ministry fad 26und
ant cause fer rejoicing in the success
which attends their eXertiOns
Throughout tie Swiss and German
Mission presided over by Elder Fred
erlck Schoenfeld, and the ScsndIna-
wan Mission presided over by Elder n.
G.. Elygare, the Elders are la0oring
also with cemmendaole zeal and with
gratifying results. An effort Is being
made st the present time to preach the
GOepeLiH Turkey, where Elders Jacob
Spori, j Nd. Tanner and +. +. HintZe
have been, aud are laboring, and even
the land IF Palestine has been visited, /
aEG IN the late company of emigrants
which reached this City from Europe,
nIne persons were gathered who had
received the Gospel in that
land, land hallewed to
as as the earthly home of {.
oBE Redeemer, and the soil of which
mig sScred feet trod.
Or the Sandwich Islands the Elders
are Iaboring taithf ully under the direc-
tiop of President William King, and Il
everything is being done to improve
She condition. OF tDat people and to
save them from the destruction which
threatens the extinction of TIE race.
The plantation ut Laie is still main
tanned, and the Elders who have Ia
bored and who are still la0Oring there
enter with spirit into the manage ment
of that property In way to benefit as
much as possible the native Saints.
The attention Of the Elders there is di
reCted at present 10 the Navigator
islands, where some few years ago {
two native Elders from the Sandwich (
Islands were successful in baptiziDg 8
large number of natives and organizing !
them into branches. These Islands {
have not been visited By any of the ]
white Elders, but it is probable that .
some of our Elders on the Sandwich
Islands may in the near future make a
visit tkereg
from New Zealand where Presi-
dent William PaXman presides,
continue to bring US gratifying intelli-
$ence concerning the condition and
progfess of the work there. The !
Elders are very successful among the {
Maories. Many of the white brethren
have succeeded in acquiring the Ian
guage of that race, which is COguate to !
EhSt of the Sandwich Islands, and two of !
them, Elders Ezra L. Richards and {
Sondra Sanders, Jr, are now en- {
gagged, we are informed, in translatjng I
Che Book Of Mormon into the Maori
language. In Australia the Elders are !
also Isboring, but it is much harder a
dafd than among the natives Of New I
Zealand.
HoAE MANUFACTURES.
Frequent reference has teen made In
past teachings aud in former Epistles I
TO the subject Of home manufactures. {
It has been, and We feel il still ought
60 be, q theme of inexhsustible inter 6
est to Zion; yet there remains an i'm i
E1ense amount to be done in develop
ing our resources and furnishing facil- I
iEies for the employment Of the people. I
It is pleasing to note the progress 4
which is being made in some direc- I
lions. Our wooden manufactures are 9
gaining credit for their excellence IN
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